{"id":6120,"date":"2013-05-09T22:22:45","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T02:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=6120"},"modified":"2013-05-09T22:22:45","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T02:22:45","slug":"thursday-night-fewer-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2013\/05\/09\/thursday-night-fewer-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday night \u2013 Fewer things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Sort of epiphany today. Not a Big deal, but it came to me while I was trying to multitask as I was getting out of the house for an early meeting which I ended up not actually making it to. The Insight was this. I have crammed my mind so full of small things that I&#39;m not making any time to think. It&#39;s like the old saw from the Stephen Covey books that if you try to fit big rocks into a jar that&#39;s already full of sand you can&#39;t do it but if you put the rocks in first then fill the Sand in  and you can. &#8230; Only here Its with thinking. <\/p>\n<p> I meditated on this again as I was supposed to be listening to phone calls and working on presentations. Yet another example of being permanently distracted. I know this might seem obvious to other people but I think I have been a major denial about the degree to which I seek out distraction.   What&#39;s not to like about something new and exciting. It always is more appealing than the thing you really need to get done.<\/p>\n<p>\nSo, note to self. I&#39;m going to try to do fewer things and do them better. I know that  kind of resolution sometime sounds hollow, but I have a good track record of changing my life once I&#39;ve committed to  something like that. For example in January 2012 I committed, along with son Max, to build more things, and talk less about them until they are done. I redirected my energy and time around that idea I&#39;ve been on a Very Productive making\/building kick since.   . In 2009 I committed myself to do in education outreach on a more international scale. Since that day I&#39;ve been over 20 countries with a message of bringing more people to engineering and science.<\/p>\n<p>So\u2026 Now I&#39;m committing to trying to do fewer things  and try to do them better. The nice thing about blogging like this, it&#39;s a great record of commitments I need to myself. Here&#39;s to me in the future looking back at keeping that pledge<\/p>\n<p>Nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=text-align: right; font-size: small; clear: both; id=blogsy_footer><a href=http:\/\/blogsyapp.com target=_blank><img src=http:\/\/blogsyapp.com\/images\/blogsy_footer_icon.png alt=Posted with Blogsy style=vertical-align: middle; margin-right: 5px; width=20 height=20 \/>Posted with Blogsy<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sort of epiphany today. Not a Big deal, but it came to me while I was trying to multitask as I was getting out of the house for an early meeting which I ended up not actually making it to. The Insight was this. I have crammed my mind so full of small things that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2013\/05\/09\/thursday-night-fewer-things\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday night \u2013 Fewer things<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}